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Perez to headline UPJ commencement
Activist, Academy Award-nominated actress and Emmy-nominated choreographer Rosie Perez is to speak at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown’s 41st annual Commencement ceremony. Perez is a vocal advocate for many causes, and has spoken...Tags: HIV, Bronx (New York City), Hispanic Heritage Month, University of Pittsburgh, Barack Obama
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No clouds, no sun for Pat DiNizio and the Smithereens
Pat DiNizio likes things real. He buys his music from Vintage Vinyl in Fords, N.J. He buys his meat from John's, a family-owned butcher in Scotch Plains. He likes the "ritual" walk from his Lower East Side apartment at Seventh and A to the nearby...
Tags: Meyer Amphitheatre, Bob Dylan, Greenwich Village, Music, The White Stripes (music group)
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The Best of "Kosher Style" in Connecticut
Katz's Delicatessen, on Manhattan's East Houston Street, is the most nostalgic of New York's Jewish delis and a destination for food tourists and American Jews searching for their roots. Jared Goldstein of jaredthenyctourguide.com puts Katz's as the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Stamford, Westport, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Woodbridge
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Holy Food!: Kosher and Its Imitators in Connecticut
What exactly is kosher? The short answer is a religious certification given to any cooked or processed food that an observant Jew is permitted to eat. A satisfying answer in detail is not easy, so a visual aid may help: picture three identical matzo...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Religion and Belief, Egypt, Storrs
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Using images to change history
The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond...Tags: Minority Groups, Martin Luther King Jr., Gordon Parks, Emmett Till, Paul Robeson
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Rich memories of a Colombian family in New York
"Empanada for a Dream" As debates about the escalating murder rate in Chicago continue to rage on, Juan Francisco Villa's solo, "Empanada for a Dream," offers a portrait simultaneously timely and a time capsule of life in a neighborhood ravaged by drugs...
Tags: McDonald's, Cantinflas, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, John Leguizamo
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Joan Curto celebrates the genius of Cole Porter
Cole Porter died nearly half a century ago – in 1964 at age 73 – yet his songs remain as ubiquitous today as they were then. Which helps explain why one of Chicago's top cabaret singers, Joan Curto, this week is launching an evening-length...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Howard Reich, Music, George Gershwin, Arts and Culture
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Eddie Huang talks about his memoir, "Fresh Off the Boat"
You must be a specific type of person for the name Eddie Huang to register. Chances increase if you: 1) live in New York, 2) are plugged into the restaurant scene and read food gossip blogs, 3) are active on social media sites like Twitter, and 4) are...
Tags: Ghostface Killah, Cultural Development, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Music
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Nacional Records shakes up the Latin music mix
As the hours ticked down to the Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas in November, the pheromone level was rising fast at the Eyecandy Lounge. Mexican pop stars cooed and preened for the cameras. Spanish-language TV reporters burbled into their microphones...
Tags: Disc Jockeys, Los Amigos Invisibles (music group), Ana Tijoux, Starbucks Corp., Sex Pistols (music group)
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'Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy' airs Tuesday
As Sir Robin carols merrily to King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot, "In any great adventure, if you don't want to lose...you won't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews." Eric Idle's cheeky lyric, which unfailingly generated knowing...
Tags: Documentary (genre), Wicked (musical), Phyllis Newman, Al Jolson, Adolph Green
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The best of Chicago fringe theater in 2012
Life on the fringe can be precarious, and this year three small Chicago theater companies with a combined 31 seasons among them decided to call it quits: BackStage Theatre and Caffeine Theatre (both on our best-of compilations in the past) and New Leaf...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Television, Bob Odenkirk, Arts and Culture
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The Fugs still riotous after all these years
The Fugs finally return to Chicago on Saturday at the City Winery after a 44-year absence. The reception for the band is bound to be a bit warmer than it was when the counter-culture pioneers last performed here, on Dec. 28, 1968, at the Aragon Ballroom....
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Folk (genre), Music, Kim Novak, Elections
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